"that 'Mr. Pope is as good at detail as Ramage is at tactics and it's for those who like their cutlasses sharp and their romance romantic.' Ramage and the Drumbeat Ramage and the Drumbeat, also published as Drumbeat is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during 1796 and 1797 amongst the naval warfare of the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the second of the Ramage novels, following on from ""Ramage"". During the book, Ramage becomes an integral part of ensuring British readiness for the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797). The book follows Lt. Nicholas Lord Ramage and his"
"Governor Ramage R.N. Governor Ramage R.N. is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the fourth of the Ramage novels, following on from ""Ramage and the Freebooters"". Ramage's ship, the ""HMS Triton"", is performing guard duty to a merchant convoy travelling from Britain to Jamaica. An otherwise routine assignment is complicated by his being under the orders of Rear Admiral Goddard, his family's sworn enemy. The convoy is menaced by French and Spanish attackers, and hit by a hurricane. Ramage pulls through, only to be court-martialed under Goddard's trumped-up charges. A side-plot occurs"
"that ""Dudley Pope has kept his story scudding along before a fine wind,"" and ""Therewith predict that Lieut. Nicholas Ramage, commander of His Majesty's cutter ""Kathleen"", will enjoy a highly successful career and survive some of the most perilous adventures experienced by any British naval officer in the entire history of the Napoleonic Wars."" Publishing information from Google Books; Ramage (novel) Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars. Nicholas Lord Ramage is the third lieutenant on His"
"on the island that gives the book its title, though in fact Ramage never attempts to exercise any civil authority over the island. Governor Ramage R.N. Governor Ramage R.N. is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the fourth of the Ramage novels, following on from ""Ramage and the Freebooters"". Ramage's ship, the ""HMS Triton"", is performing guard duty to a merchant convoy travelling from Britain to Jamaica. An otherwise routine assignment is complicated by his being under the orders of Rear Admiral Goddard, his family's sworn enemy. The convoy is menaced by"
"The Cruiser The Cruiser is a novel of war at sea by Warren Tute. It follows the story of HMS ""Antigone"", a fictional British of the Second World War named after the mythical Greek character Antigone. The novel paints a realistic picture of life on a cruiser in the late 1930s and early war years: the principal character is the ship herself, with many members of her crew (from the captain to the ""three fat men of the sea"") as supporting actors. The author had served on , a real ""Leander""-class cruiser, during the 1930s. Published in 1955, ""The Cruiser"""
"such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."" The personal character of the novel's antagonist ""Wolf Larsen"" was attributed to a real sailor London had known, Captain Alex MacLean. According to London himself, ""much of the Sea Wolf is imaginary development, but the basis is Alexander McLean"". Captain Alex MacLean, or McLean, was born May 15, 1858 in East Bay, Nova Scotia. He did sail mostly in the Pacific North West with his brother, Captain Dan MacLean. MacLean was at one time the"
"Nautilus file manager from which it was forked. A Polish singer - Bogdan Gajkowski - popular especially during the 1980s, started recording song under the name ""Kapitan Nemo"" the Polish name of Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play ""Journey Through the Impossible"" (1882). Nemo is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian"
"The Mediterranean Caper The Mediterranean Caper (also published 'Mayday') is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler published in the United States in 1973. This is the 1st published book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. It was nominated for an Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America for ""Best Paperback Original Novel of 1973."" Dirk Pitt is up against an international drug smuggling ring and the evil Bruno Von Till, a German pilot who survived both World Wars to become one of the most ruthless smugglers in history. The novel is set in the Aegean Sea, where Dirk"
"Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play ""Journey Through the Impossible"" (1882). Nemo is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the ""Nautilus"", which was built in pieces all over the world and shipped to the builder. Nemo tries"
"original drawings painted in Palestine. The character of Duckworth in the TV show ""Duck Tales"" was named after him. Robinson Duckworth The Reverend Robinson Duckworth, DD, CVO, VD (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911), was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). He is represented by the Duck in the book, a play on his last name. He officiated at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. Duckworth was the second son of Robinson Duckworth Sr. of Liverpool"
"and was abandoned for more than four years on a deserted island. That case, and perhaps another similar one carried out by a certain Pedro Serrano, were sources for English writer Daniel Defoes' novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". Selkirk, a rebellious and egotistical pirate, is the pilot of the ""Esperanza"", an English galleon that sails the southern seas looking for treasure. Through gambling he earns the present and future savings of his companions, winning the enmity of the crew and Captain Bullock, who decides to leave him on a desert island. The critic Diego Batle said that to the rhythm of a"
"Ramage and the Freebooters Ramage and the Freebooters, is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the third of the Ramage novels, following on from ""Ramage and the Drumbeat"". Ramage, recovering from medical leave after the Battle of Cape St Vincent is summoned to the Admiralty by Lord Spencer and given command of a brig, HMS Triton, with orders to take sealed dispatches to the admirals commanding the British fleets off Brest, Cadiz and the West Indies. However, there is just one small problem – the HMS Triton is docked at Spithead, where"
"the real events in the popular imagination. Doyle changes a number of details, including the names of the captain, crew, and passengers, and also the name of the vessel from ""Mary Celeste"" to ""Marie Celeste"". In the story, the ship is in an almost perfect state when discovered (the ""Mary Celeste"" had been in heavy weather and was waterlogged) and the boats are still present (the ""Mary Celeste"" one boat was actually missing). The fictional story reached a much wider audience than the original story of the ""Mary Celeste"", which has led to the widespread belief that ""Marie Celeste"" was"
"and professional rivals to be addressed. Alan Lewrie Alan Lewrie (KB BT) is the fictional hero and main character of Dewey Lambdin's naval adventure series of novels set during the American and the French Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars. Alan Lewrie provides a departure from other heroes of the genre. C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho, and Dudley Pope's Lord Ramage are much more in the traditional hero mode in attitudes and upbringing. Hornblower is the son of a country doctor packed off to sea after the death of his parents, Bolitho and Ramage are the sons of"
"a copy of Drake's will was brought to Hartzell's mail fraud trial and he was convicted and imprisoned. Drake's Drum has become an icon of English folklore with its variation of the classic king in the mountain story. Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With"
"Poseidon (fictional ship) The SS ""Poseidon"" is a fictional transatlantic ocean liner that first appeared in the 1969 novel ""The Poseidon Adventure"" by Paul Gallico and later in four films based on the novel. The ship is named after the god of the seas in Greek mythology. In the 1969 novel, the ship is traveling across the Atlantic on her first month-long cruise with African and South American ports of call, after her recent sale & conversion from the 35-year old British ocean liner RMS ""Atlantis"" into the American cruise ship SS Poseidon. On December 26, the ""SS Poseidon"" capsizes"
"ran to three editions in a matter of weeks. HMS ""Antigone"" is not to be confused with HMS ""Antigone"" of the Nathaniel Drinkwater series by Richard Woodman. The Cruiser The Cruiser is a novel of war at sea by Warren Tute. It follows the story of HMS ""Antigone"", a fictional British of the Second World War named after the mythical Greek character Antigone. The novel paints a realistic picture of life on a cruiser in the late 1930s and early war years: the principal character is the ship herself, with many members of her crew (from the captain to the"
"Alan Lewrie Alan Lewrie (KB BT) is the fictional hero and main character of Dewey Lambdin's naval adventure series of novels set during the American and the French Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars. Alan Lewrie provides a departure from other heroes of the genre. C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho, and Dudley Pope's Lord Ramage are much more in the traditional hero mode in attitudes and upbringing. Hornblower is the son of a country doctor packed off to sea after the death of his parents, Bolitho and Ramage are the sons of naval officers (captain and admiral, respectively)"
"Tom Ayrton Tom Ayrton is a fictional character who appears in two novels by French author Jules Verne. He is first introduced as a major character in the novel ""In Search of the Castaways"" (1867–1868). He then reappears in a later novel, ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874), in which his fate, left unknown at the ending of the previous novel, is resolved, and during the course of which his character undergoes change and achieves a redemption. A Scottish able seaman, Ayrton served as quartermaster on board the three-mast ship ""Britannia"", under the command of Captain Harry Grant. Differing opinions and extreme"
"Ramage (novel) Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars. Nicholas Lord Ramage is the third lieutenant on His Majesty's ship ""Sibella"", but assumes command when the Captain, and the First and Second Lieutenants are killed by fire from a French ship. The French ship had fatally crippled the ""Sibella"" and had killed over half of her crew, including the surgeon and surgeon's mate. As the new Captain, Ramage decides to abandon the sinking ship. He leaves the"
"Sailors would look for mermaid's purses on beaches for signs of mermaids in the area. Davy Jones is a popular character in sailor's yore, especially of the gothic fictional variety. Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (to be ""sent to Davy Jones' Locker""). The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including an actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s; a pub owner who"
"Hewitt. The novel concludes with Hewitt in charge and the ship finding many planets to inhabit. <br> Rogue Ship Rogue Ship is a 1965 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, adapted from three short stories to form a novel. The three short stories used were: Using Van Vogt's own terminology when creating a novel from 3 previous short stories, he named it a fixup. Centaurus is the destination of the space ship ""The Hope of Man"". It has been traveling through space for almost twenty years, and still has nine years of flight remaining. For many"
"disregarded this. Godfrey Morgan Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery (, literally ""The School for Robinsons""), also published as School for Crusoes, is an 1882 adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel tells of a wealthy young man, Godfrey Morgan who, with his deportment instructor, Professor T. Artelett, embark from San Francisco, California on a round-the-world ocean voyage. They are cast away on an uninhabited Pacific island where they must endure a series of adversities. Later they encounter an African slave, Carefinotu, brought to the island by cannibals. In the end, the trio manage to work together and survive"
"ordinary folk have envisioned over the decades their own interpretations of ""Nautilus"": A Catalog of ""Nautilus"" Designs Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874). Verne named the ""Nautilus"" after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine ""Nautilus"" (1800). For the design of the ""Nautilus"" Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine ""Plongeur"", a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel. ""Nautilus"" is described by Verne as ""a masterpiece containing masterpieces"". It is"
"of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the ""Cinque Ports"", and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies. The ""Cinque Ports"" later sank with the loss of most of her crew. Selkirk was not rescued until four years later, by Woodes Rogers. Selkirk's travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". Today, one of the islands on the Chilean coast is named Alejandro Selkirk Island and another"
"smugglers. The legend of the ""Caleuche"" is referred to in Alastair Reynolds' 2001 novel Chasm City, when the Chilean crewmembers of a generation ship discover a ""ghost ship"" trailing the flotilla of colony vessels and dub the ship ""Caleuche"". The ""Caleuche"" is a living vessel which travels the world, carrying a crew of monster hunters in The Luke Coles Book Series by Josh Walker. In film and television, Raúl Ruiz's ""Three Crowns of the Sailor"" (1983) and ""Litoral"" (2008) and Jorge Olguín's ""Caleuche: The Call of the Sea"" (2012) are all loosely inspired by the legend. Caleuche The Caleuche is"
"time of her maiden voyage on 14 April 1912, and he was one of approximately 1,500 people who perished in the disaster. Many people believe that this story foreshadows the ""Titanic"" tragedy based on its plot and the themes present. The story centers around an unnamed mail steamer sailing the Atlantic Ocean with passengers, crew, mail and baggage aboard. The main character, a sailor named Thompson, gives an account of his ocean voyage. After a brief scrap with a British Steerage passenger, Thompson goes out on deck later that night and takes a stroll on the Boat Deck. He worries"
"Lambert says. ""The buccaneers just want to capture some loot and come home and drink it all, and Crusoe isn’t doing that at all. He's an economic imperialist. He's creating a world of trade and profit."" Other possible sources for the narrative include Ibn Tufail's ""Hayy ibn Yaqdhan"", and Spanish sixteenth century sailor Pedro Serrano. Ibn Tufail's ""Hayy ibn Yaqdhan"" is a twelfth-century philosophical novel also set on a desert island and translated into Latin and English a number of times in the half-century preceding Defoe's novel. Pedro Luis Serrano was a Spanish sailor who was marooned for seven or"
"captain Josias Lockwood, a friendless Irishman named Pius Mulvey, and American journalist Grantley Dixon. The narrative of the novel follows multiple threads interwoven by Grantley Dixon from documents such as diaries and letters, or from conversations/interviews with some of the principal characters or their relatives/descendants. The narrative partly follows the chronological course of the voyage, and for the intermediate or interposed parts consists of the meshed-in background lives of some of the emigrants and their relatives before they left Ireland (or England, or even after they arrived in the US). The novel departs from the usual formula of a murder"
"No specific real life captain completely matches Aubrey, but the exploits of two naval captains inspired events in the novels, Captain Thomas Cochrane, and Captain William Woolsey. Cochrane used the ruse of placing a light on a floating barrel at night to avoid capture. Woolsey, aboard HMS ""Papillon"", disguised a ship under his command as a commercial boat; on discovering information that a rogue ship was on the other side of a small island, he sailed around the island and captured the Spanish ship by stratagem, on April 15, 1805. The film combines elements from 13 different novels of Patrick"
"exists between Scipio Africanus, fellow sailor Dick Fid, and a Royal Navy officer whom they befriend after saving his life. Though the two men treat him like an officer, deferring to him with respect, they still remain friendly. Cooper is one of the authors credited with helping pioneer the sea novel genre. For him, however, American history before his time hardly offered real maritime tradition to seize in his historical fiction; instead he innovated, writing purely fictional pieces, unlike his novels about other events in American history. Forty four days after the first American publication of the novel in 1828,"
"different characters in different novels. Seventeen books have had a character with this name, frequently in the opening prologues, frequently a sailor, usually dying; a notable exception is the first (in chronological order) Dirk Pitt adventure, ""Pacific Vortex"", in which Admiral Leigh Hunter is a major character, commander of the 101st Recovery Fleet in Hawaii. In the introduction to ""Arctic Drift"", Cussler says there was a real Leigh Hunt who died in 2007 and the novel is dedicated to him. Another is that significant events in several novels occur on July 15 (Cussler's birthday). He also uses the name ""Periwinkle"""
"are fearful. In traditions associated with sailors crossing the Equatorial line, there was a ""raucous and rowdy"" initiation presided over by those who had crossed the line before, known as shellbacks, or Sons of Neptune. The eldest shellback was called King Neptune, and Davy Jones would be re-enacted as his first assistant. In 1824, Washington Irving mentions Jones's name in his ""Adventures of the Black Fisherman"": In Edgar Allan Poe's """" of 1835, Davy Jones is referred to dismissively by the anti-hero, Tarpaulin, when King Pest refers to ""that unearthly sovereign"" ""whose name is Death."" Tarpaulin responds, ""Whose name is"